Grab from first shoot with Letus

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RossS

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I'd appreciate any feedback of this grab. It's from an interview for a documentary I am beginning work on...and my first effort with the Letus35 FE (with a Canon FD 135mm lens). I didn't want to over-stylize the lighting and there has been no color correction. Please be brutally honest!

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I like it - but it seems to lack overall sharpness - is there a lot of compression on the still shot, or does it look like that on your TV? The color is great, and the DOF is bang on, it just lacks clean focus around the eyes, and I am wondering if that is optical degredation or a result from flipping in post. Heck it might even be motion blur, I can't say looking at 1 still.

Can you get close to that using a large aperture and a long lens?
 
... its a notch too yellow...just a notch, what kind of lighting setup did you have, what kind of lights?
 
Creative Guys...it looks a little crisper on my monitor, so I think it might be the compression on the still shot. By the way, no flipping in post...the Letus35 FE flips it for you! And this guy was moving quite a bit while talking so it very well could be motion blur we're seeing. And Nomadic, I agree on being a touch yellow. I used an Arri 650w fresnel with a small Chimera...if anything I would want some "negative" fill to make the contrast pop a little more.
 
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